Shropshire Fire & Rescue Service - VPN
Fire crews at the Shropshire Fire & Rescue service are being given improved access to emergency incident risk data thanks to a new secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) implemented by Wide Area Networking specialist, CI-Net. Updates to mapping information as well as building layouts and other incident specific data can be communicated faster to fire crews on route to calls, with increased reliability and fewer technical difficulties. Risk data is sent to the county’s fire stations over the new VPN and downloaded to touch-screen computers located on emergency vehicles or appliances via wireless network connections within each station.
CI-Net's meshed VPN solution allows the headquarters office to communicate effectively with the remote fire station sites. There are also plans to create a secondary failover site from which data can be accessed in the event of an operational disaster at the Shrewsbury site. Eventually the service aims to replicate all the key data and applications at Shrewsbury to a site in Telford. When this is up and running the VPN will allow the fire stations to access critical data from this secondary site if problems are experienced at HQ.
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